[Boadicea]

You are absolutely right. I have family members who joke ” if shtf happens, I’ll just come to your house.” My reply is “I truly wish I had the means to support every able-bodied adult in the family who chose not to prepare for themselves. But I don’t.”

[LocalPrepper]

Tell them that they are welcome but to come with three months of food, water and toilet paper or stay away.😉

[JerseyGiantChick]

That is a good one, you are not the one that is stupid and it is your own choices and decisions.

[LocalPrepper]

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[Bix]

I’ve had friends and family tell me that they’ll just come to my house if SHTF. I tell them straight out, don’t come to my house, I have nothing for you.

[Hippiemimi]

I have had people tell me that too. They have no idea what I have but they know I’m very well schooled in every aspect of prepping. Gardening, food preservation, animal husbandry, construction, foraging, etc…. Makes me mad when they say they know where to go when things go to hell. I have had to tell them I have no interest in having guests that cannot contribute. I tell them to prepare for themselves and not to depend on others.

[SLINGSHOT]

I agree with you. If you told others and they don’t want to listen then to bad for them. Who would take care of you?

[LocalPrepper]

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[Raine-chime]

I would be careful about giving away too much info about taking money out of the bank, stocking food and supplies etc. We don’t want peeps to know where to come get stuff if they need it when things get bad.

My problem is it’s hard to be quiet when I see what is going on and I know they aren’t prepared. It seems like certainly this time they’ll listen so I try again. But 🤷‍♀️

My one sister has listened pretty well and has a good supply of food and I even convinced her to get a burkey water filter. But I’m afraid she still has a bunch of money in the bank.

My children think I’m extreme but at least they know how to garden, preserve food, sew, and other skills. I would love to stock enough for all of them but I don’t have the finances or the space.

I would never turn my children away if they need something I have but I’m not sure about everyone else. I love to give and share so it would be pretty hard for me if I couldn’t. So I just keep hoping it never comes to that even though I know it probably will.

Meanwhile, I keep adding more backups to my backups whenever I can.

[LocalPrepper]

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[Summerhat-n-Chicks]

It took a while for me to get through to some of my family. At least my mother and two sisters are preparing for times to come, but I don’t think they are where they should/could be. Just spoke to one of my sisters this morning and she was wondering whether or not to clean out a live-insurance to pay off the house and I told her that with what’s coming, the live-insurance most likely will be gone and to go ahead and do it. Can’t wait to see how they decide.

[JerseyGiantChick]

That choice should not be a difficult one to make.

[Summerhat-n-Chicks]

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[Ss6]

Most of my family is at least somewhat on board thankfully, they definitely all have their eyes open to the “agenda” except my two aunts who trust the “experts”. Still working on my husband as he’s a “city boy” and isn’t quite as into the learning of new skills himself yet but he gets it enough to allow me to gather and learn. Step by step, little by little. I try not to panic that we aren’t far enough on this journey and trust that God will see us through as I work hard on my end.

[TCam]

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[outyonder]

I also believe we are supposed to be generous and give gladly, however Jesus told the following parable which applies to prepping.

“1. …Then the kingdom of heaven will be comparable to ten virgins, who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. 2. “Five of them were foolish, and five were prudent. 3. “For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them, 4. but the prudent took oil in flasks along with their lamps. 5. “Now while the bridegroom was delaying, they all got drowsy and began to sleep. 6. “But at midnight there was a shout, ‘Behold, the bridegroom! Come out to meet him.’ 7. “Then all those virgins rose and trimmed their lamps. 8. “The foolish said to the prudent, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’ 9. “But the prudent answered, ‘No, there will not be enough for us and you too; go instead to the dealers and buy some for yourselves.’ 10. “And while they were going away to make the purchase, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding feast; and the door was shut. 11. “Later the other virgins also came, saying, ‘Lord, lord, open up for us.’ 12. “But he answered, ‘Truly I say to you, I do not know you.’ 13. “Be on the alert then, for you do not know the day nor the hour.” (Mat 25:1-13, NASB)

[Bix]

Amen to that.

[Grumpy_G]

I think your friend’s interaction with their BIL is more common than we think. Many people are waking up to what could happen. Many more are doubling down on their normalcy bias. While we all wish we had the power to bring someone’s thinking around to at least considering the possibilities and probabilities of what looks to be coming down the tracks, we have to realize that some people will never come around until the train is rolling over them. We prepare how and for who we can. Big thing is that if something does happen and these people are in dire straits (not necessarily a world ending event, but any world changing event for them), it will not be the time to say “I told you so”. Think about it now and come up with a way to use their self induced misfortune as a way to make a community building opportunity and a learning experience for them.

Just my 2 cents. People could go straight to “heads on a pike”. As long as it is not my head, or I have to clean up the mess, I say “you be you, boo”.

[Hanidu-Acres]

Wisdom.

[Grumpy_G]

Nah, it’s gaining empathy through osmosis from surrounding myself with people that are a bit more thoughtful than I am most of the time. “Shoot ’em in the face.” is still pretty high up on my list of alternatives should things go south in a big way .

[LocalPrepper]

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